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Star Citizen's AI Already Looks Really Awesome

Dogfights. In. Spaaaaaaaaaaaaace. This is very early footage of what Star Citizen's AI will look like in action, but dang does it look pretty. Check out those formations! Even the placeholder laser shots look good enough for me to want to get my hands on the controls of my very own starship.

As creator Chris Roberts puts it in a blog post on the Star Citizen page, the AI is "24 months away from anything that would be called final," so seeing it in such a state right now is extremely heartening. While the AI can respond to commands to fly in formation and engage in combat on their own right now, Roberts promises that in their final state they'll be have "distinct personalities, dynamic learning, signature moves to next level with the power of modern CPUs." Fancy, and rather ambitious.

Finally, because the general gamer population is technically the investing group behind Star Citizen, Roberts tells us to expect to see more videos that would normally be shown internally. Thanks, Chris!